Black Star Britain's Asian Youth Movements

Name: Black Star Britain's Asian Youth Movements
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ISBN: 9780745333489

ISBN-10: 0745333486

ISBN-13: 9780745333489

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anandi Ramamurthy

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Black Star documents the Asian Youth Movements that emerged in 1970s and 1980s Britain. These organizations, established by the children of early migrants, were determined to struggle against both the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from black power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers struggles across the globe.Ramamurthy traces how they saw themselves as part of a wider collective of people struggling for social justice and national liberation. In their struggle to make Britain their home they identified with a broad-based black unity where black was a political color inspiring unity amongst all those struggling against…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 9/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Anandi Ramamurthy is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Central Lancashire.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations



Introduction



The Birth of the Youth Movements



The Movement Spreads



A Heterogenous Collectivity



Campaigning Against the Immigration Laws



Bradford 12 - Self-Defence is No Offence



The Later Youth Movements and the Drive Towards State Funding



New Organisations and New Identities



The Asian Youth Movements and Politics Today


Bibliography and Interviews


Index